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Letters Patent No. 77,069, dated April 21, 1868. i

IMPROVED BLAGKING FOR LEATHER, (its.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN-2 Be it known that I, ITHAMAR B. MERRILL, of the town of Dexter, county of Ien obscot, and State of Maine, have inirented a new and useful Compound for Blocking and Polishing Leather; and'I do hereby declare the following to be a full arid exact description of the same.

My invention consists of the following ingredients combined and compounded, as hereafter described. To make sufiieient for sixty dozen rolls,'I take eighty-two pounds of beef-tallow, six quarts Castor-oil, four quarts whale-oil, three pounds rosin, nine pounds beeswax, one pound lamp-black, one pound ivory-black, and two pounds pine coal. 7 i

To enable others skillediin the art to'mako my compound blacking, I will proceed to describe my method of preparing the same.

First. I pulverize the pine coal to a, very fine powder, and also crush the-rosin into small pieces.

Second. I take a. suitable-sized vessel, made oftin oriron,'in which I place the tallow, castor and whaleoil, and beeswax, melt over a. slow fire, thoroughly stirring the same until well mixed; then I add the lampblack ivory-black, pine coal, and rosin, stirring them gradually into the mass already melted in the vessel, until the whole mass is well combined.

Third. I then run the mass, so combined, into suitably-sized tin moulds, or putup in tin boxes, ready for use.

What I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

A blocking and polishing-compound, composed of the above-named ingredients, in the manner and about the proportions substantially as described. I I

ITHAMAR B. MERRILL.

witnessesz.

WM. M. ROBINSON, I JOSEPH SHEPHERD. 

